VMware module warning

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Thu Dec 15 18:55:17 UTC 2005


On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 05:19:46PM +0500, Sergey wrote:
 > Greets!
 > 
 > vmmon: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel. What can I do with that? It 
 > displays on every system start, although VMware engine works perfectly.
 > 
 > insmod >/dev/null 2>&1 does not help. It seems to be a kernel-generated 
 > message which is written to STDERR until syslog starts.

It's just an informational thing that happens when you load any module
that we don't have the source for.

The worst it means to you is..

"If you hit a kernel oops and file a bug, we'll ask you to try
 and reproduce it without the module loaded".

		Dave




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